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Breaking News Yaffa Eliach, Historian Who Created Iconic ‘Faces’ of Holocaust, Dies at 79
— Yaffa Eliach, a prominent historian of the Holocaust who opened the first center for Holocaust studies in the United States, has died. Eliach, a Holocaust survivor, died Wednesday at 79, The Jewish Press reported. In 1974, she opened the Center for Holocaust Studies in Brooklyn. It later merged with the Museum of Jewish Heritage in New…
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Breaking News Germany Investigates Mark Zuckerberg and Facebook Over Slow Removal of Hate Speech
German prosecutors are investigating Mark Zuckerberg and other Facebook executives for failing to react to the onslaught of hate speech on their platform as well as for not deleting posts denying the Holocaust. European countries like Germany have much stricter laws against hate speech than the United States. German law requires Facebook Germany to delete…
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Life Holocaust Survivor’s Daughter: Trump a Reminder of Dark Years
‘Politico’ reporter Hadas Gold was sent an anti-Semitic death threat by a Trump supporter https://t.co/J74AumoWwY pic.twitter.com/TRZab4hY32 — Mic (@mic) October 21, 2016 A bullet hole was traced onto Hadas Gold’s blood-spattered forehead. The photo in the news article showed an accompanying message: ‘Don’t mess with our boy Trump, or you’ll be first in line for…
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Breaking News Letter From European President Increases Pressure for Holocaust Restitution on Eastern Europe
— Amid growing pressure on Poland and other Eastern European countries to offer full restitution for plundered Jewish property, the European Parliament’s president reiterated his support for such moves. Martin Schulz, whose European Parliament has passed two resolutions in the 1990s calling for restitution, spoke about the issue in a letter he sent last month to…
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Breaking News Berlin Holocaust Memorial Architect Says It Wouldn’t Be Built Today
— The American architect who designed the Berlin Holocaust memorial said that such a memorial could not be built today due to rising anti-Semitism and xenophobia. Peter Eisenman said in an interview published last week in the German weekly Die Zeit that the current atmosphere of hate in Germany and the United States would not…
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Israel News WATCH: Holocaust Survivors Strut Their Stuff in Fashion Show
After surviving the Holocaust, a group of elderly women took a star turn this week at a fashion show in the Israeli city of Haifa, dressed in pageant dresses and celebrated with cheers and applause. “Tonight we’re letting some women who survived the Holocaust have something that was robbed from them in their youth,” David…
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News Holocaust Museum Crowdsources the Hardest Question: What Did Americans Know — and When?
How did Americans react to the November Pogroms? What were their thoughts on the annexation of Austria? How much did they know about Auschwitz? These are just some of the questions that History Unfolded, a crowdsourcing project by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, seeks to answer. In the past, historians have done extensive research…
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Breaking News Holocaust-Denying Academic Organized List of Trump Endorsers
In an effort to counter claims that his list of supporter is short on intellectuals, Donald Trump, scholars supporting his run for presidency are collecting signatures on a statement endorsing the Republican candidate. According to a Daily Caller report from Friday, more than 50 scholars have joined the statement, saying that, “supporters of the Trump…
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